Re: [Python-Dev] Location of .so files (Was: Sharing expat instances)

2005-12-15 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Phillip J. Eby wrote: > The relevance to "sharing expat instances" was Fredrik's original > question about placement of the shared library for cElementTree. The > question wasn't whether to get rid of lib-dynload in general, but > whether there was any reason to do something other than just making

Re: [Python-Dev] Location of .so files (Was: Sharing expat instances)

2005-12-15 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 10:14 PM 12/15/2005 +0100, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >Phillip J. Eby wrote: > > Right; the question is why not just EXEC_PREFIX "/lib/python" VERSION > > instead. What benefit does the separate directory offer? > >I can only guess: it's primarily a matter of tidiness. > > > Note that the distutil

Re: [Python-Dev] Location of .so files (Was: Sharing expat instances)

2005-12-15 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Phillip J. Eby wrote: > Right; the question is why not just EXEC_PREFIX "/lib/python" VERSION > instead. What benefit does the separate directory offer? I can only guess: it's primarily a matter of tidiness. > Note that the distutils, when installing a package containing C > extensions, will in